community benefits program – external...

Community Benefits Program – External Training

Strategic Partnerships for Positive Social Impacts

Sharise HorneCommunity Benefits Director502.540.6155sharise.horne@louisvillemsd.org

Introduction

Disparity Study

Prime Contractor Disparity Findings

Sub-Contractor Disparity Findings

Race and Gender Mandatory Goals

Formalize Community Benefits Program

Implement Small Local Business Enterprise Program

MSD’s Community Benefits Policy Statement

MSD is committed to the goal of developing an inclusive and comprehensive Program to better serve and foster partnerships within our local communities, build a water workforce pipeline to support MSD core services and ensure all local communities within the MSD service area experience public benefits.

The Community Benefits Program Outcomes

Create advocates from ratepayers and non-traditional partners

Enhance and expand workforce development training programs for careers in water infrastructure

Strengthen the local water infrastructure workforce pipeline by offering Curriculum Support Resources

Utilities Are Embracing Community Benefits

• Atlanta Department of Watershed Management • Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority• D.C. Water Works• Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation• Metropolitan Sewage District of Cincinnati• Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District• Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District • Portland Water Bureau• San Francisco Public Utilities Commission • Seattle Public Utilities

Community Benefits in Contracts

• We invite our contractors to adhere to our Community Benefits Policy by embedding community benefits criteria into MSD Invitation to Bids and Request for Proposals of $2 million and above.

• Our goal is to partner with contractors who have a strong commitment to community benefits and corporate social responsibility.

• Contractor commitments must be:– Consistent with the goals and outcomes of

the Community Benefits Policy. – Firm, quantifiable, and measurable.– Performed during the life of the Agreement.

– Working together, our goal is to make significant, positive community impact in the communities and neighborhoods throughout the Agency’s service area.

Community Benefits Program Parameters

• Community Benefits applies to construction contracts valued at $2M or more, and professional services contracts valued at $200K or more.

• Bidders must deliver Community Benefits at no cost to MSD.

• Community Benefits becomes a binding part of a vendor’s contract award.

• MSD reserves a right to impose a maximum penalty equal to 2% or up to the maximum of percentage of the awarded contract for each percentage point the bidder falls short of its commitment.

• Bidders’ proposals must be outcome-oriented in the areas of education, environmental justice, workforce development, and small business development.

• Bidders must commit to one or more of the following: financial contributions, volunteer hours, and/or in-kind services.

• Bidders’ community benefits must directly benefit communities impacted by MSD’s operations.

• Bidders’ community benefits must go directly to schools and nonprofit corporations qualified to do business in the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a registered organization with the Kentucky Secretary of State.

Examples of Community Benefits(for illustrative purposes only)

Workforce

• Removing employment barriers (e.g. reliable transportation)

• Soft skills training (e.g. problem solving, business etiquette)

• On-the-job training for transitional aged youth and adults

Education• Developing eco-literacy curriculum for K-12 schools• Certificate programs to qualify residents for utility jobs• Internships & Apprenticeship Programs

Business

• Mentor-mentee protégé programs for small businesses• Financial assistance for small contractors• Local procurement policies (e.g. local catering

preferences)

The Process

Process Overview

Community Benefits will become part of the procurement process,modeled after MSD’s Local Labor Preferences.

Community Benefits included in

applicable bids.

Firms submit their Community Benefits Commitments with

their proposals.

Community Benefits Commitments are

scored.

Bid Documents

Sample Scoresheet – CB and LL

Community Benefits is scored in the same manner at Local Labor Preferences.

Sample Scoresheet – CB Only

Community Benefits Program Parameters

Prior to the Notice of Proceed being issued, the firm must submit the following:• Community Benefits Plan (less than 5 pages)

– Details the who, what, when, how• Completed Community Benefits Table• Complete & Notarized Statement of Understanding• Once plan is approved the CBP will become part of the

contract.

Community Benefits TableBidders must use the following Community Benefits Table in their proposals to explain

their community benefit commitments. (Example below based on $2,500,000 bid with 2% CB Commitment)

Focus Area Community Partner

Expected Outcomes

(A)Financial Contribu

tions

(B) Volunteer

Hours

(C)Standard Volunteer

Hourly Rate

(D) Value of

Volunteer Hours (B x C)

(E)In-Kind

Contributions

(F)Total

Contributions(A + D + E)

Education JCPS –ColeridgeTaylor

Improve test scores for disadvantaged children in STEM Program

$5,000 50 $80/hr. $4,000 $1,000 $10,000

Workforce Develop.

Goodwill Industries

Remove barriers to entry for SecondChance Residents

$25,000 n/a $80/hr. $ $ $25,000

EconomicDevel

Provide mentoring/mentee opp to Small Biz to understand bid estimating

$5,000 120 $80/hr. $9,600 $400 $15,000

TOTAL $35,000 170 $80/hr. $13,600 $1,400 $50,000

Statement of Understanding

Sample Annual Reports

The Impact

Together The Community Benefits

Question and Answers